Bobby Jones Golfer Quotes & Sayings

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon. — Bill Walsh

To Wordsworth nature was the nurse; to us, it's the patient. — Robert Hillman

Henry had never felt so happy. Freshperson year had been one thing, an adventure, an exhilaration, all in all a success, but it had also been exhausting, a constant struggle and adjustment and tumult. Now he was locked in. Every day that summer had the same framework, the alarm at the same time, meals and workouts and shifts and SuperBoost at the same times, over and over, and it was that sameness, that repetition, that gave life meaning. He savored the tiny variations, the incremental improvements
tuna fish on his salad instead of turkey; tow extra reps on the bench press. Every move he made had purpose. — Chad Harbach

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success. — Bobby Jones

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. — Aldous Huxley

The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at — Dean Cavanagh

I don't know if we even mentioned UFOs. It was to find out why Barney was emotionally upset. — Betty Hill

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail. — Dan Ariely

Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal. — Jack Nicklaus

As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward. — David Grinspoon

It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident. — Charles Ferguson

All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence. — Karl Philipp Moritz

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger. — Bobby Jones

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you. — Erykah Badu

Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best. — Roy Lichtenstein